>>Can we say that the "authority" used in [RFC 2396] denotes an host name
>> or its IPv4 Address?
>Yes
Sort of. RFC 2396 is a generic syntax. For the http and https schemes,
then the authority is DNS. For an ldap scheme, the authority would be
the RFC that defines LDAP->URI syntax. For the rsalz scheme, the
authority would be my wife. :)
/r$
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